---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage Trust Fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage Trust Fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 572"
citation: "Louisiana HB 572 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Malinda White"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d485895-2544-4f51-b6e0-6a065794ca17"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240539"
source_hash: "3cf98055d42127302c9f88100e40e1360d5d224303a39ea0d5dd539aebbceed6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 572 (2021) — CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage Trust Fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB572 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212039)
2. **HB572 Act 326** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235642)
3. **HB572 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218767)
4. **HB572 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221526)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1818, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218227)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1861, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218397)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2178, White, M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220305)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1308, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218839)
9. **HB572 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232946)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#236) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#870) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Malinda White — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 326. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d485895-2544-4f51-b6e0-6a065794ca17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).